Selah Archive Listing
Selah: Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Bill Zipp - "Missions requires goers and senders alike who are willing to have their lives changed for the sake of the Great Commission. Both need to view themselves as active participants in reaching the world."
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Bill Zipp is a freelance writer and church consultant from Oregon.
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Selah: Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Bernard of Clairvaux - "God, whose greatness knows no end, to whose wisdom there is no limit, whose peace exceeds all understanding, loves [us]--and [yet we dare to] think we can requite Him with some [limited] measure of love? . . . The measure of love due to Him is immeasurable love. . . . This is the claim that God the holy, the supreme, the omnipotent, has upon [us]. . . ."
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Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153), one of the most influential religious figures of his time, was a French abbot and monastic reformer known for the persuasive power of his preaching, the lyrical beauty of his writing, and the deep holiness of his personal life.
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Selah: Monday, October 8, 2007
Bernard of Clairvaux - "The soul that loves God seeks no other reward than the God whom it loves. Were the soul to demand anything else, then it would certainly love that other thing and not God."
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Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153), one of the most influential religious figures of his time, was a French abbot and monastic reformer known for the persuasive power of his preaching, the lyrical beauty of his writing, and the deep holiness of his personal life.
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Selah: Sunday, October 7, 2007
Bernard of Clairvaux - "There is no limit to [God's] love, for He loved us first. Such a One loved us so much and so freely, insignificant as we are and such as we are, that . . . we must love God [in return] without any limit. . . "
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Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153), one of the most influential religious figures of his time, was a French abbot and monastic reformer known for the persuasive power of his preaching, the lyrical beauty of his writing, and the deep holiness of his personal life.
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Selah: Sunday, September 30, 2007
Thomas a Kempis - "What good does it do to speak learnedly about the Trinity if, lacking humility, you displease the Trinity? Indeed it is not learning that makes a man holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him pleasing to God. I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it. For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God? Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone."
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Thomas a Kempis (ca.1380 - 1471) was a Renaissance Roman Catholic monk and translator of Imitation of Christ, one of the best known Christian books on devotion
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Selah: Thursday, September 27, 2007
Bob Fobes - "The writer of Hebrews said that in running the race of life for God, we should "throw off everything that hinders, and the sin that so easily entangles" (Hebrews 12:2). What are the hindrances for us? What has God been bringing to mind? It could be a wrong lifestyle, or conformity to social pressures, or a wrong emotion or habit. We can take hold of these little pleasures and follow them to our sorrow, or we can drop them and follow Christ."
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Bob Fobes is a Navigator representative in Massachusetts.
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Selah: Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Bob Fobes - "God's value system is different from the world's--in the way to pursue a career, in the use of money, in family values, in social behavior. The world says success is first. But God says he is to be first. The world says to get all the money you can. God says to give. The world says to conform to contemporary lifestyles, but God says to live by convictions from his word. The world says God is just religion, but God says he wants our devotion."
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Bob Fobes is a Navigator representative in Massachusetts.
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Selah: Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Bob Fobes - "Our little decisions now determine whether, in the end, we are delighted or dejected, delivered or defeated. God is asking us to make the choice ourselves. He isn't glorified by robots, but by having his highest form of creation submit willingly to him, to do his will. We've been given that independence. He isn't forcing us to obey."
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Bob Fobes is a Navigator representative in Massachusetts.
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Selah: Monday, September 24, 2007
C.H. Spurgeon - "Jesus is the great teacher of lowliness of heart. We need daily to learn of Him. See the Master taking a towel and washing His disciples' feet! Follower of Christ, will you not humble yourself?"
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C.H. Spurgeon (1834 - 1892) was a British Reformed Baptist preacher who remains highly influential amongst Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known in various circles as the "Prince of Preachers."
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Selah: Sunday, September 23, 2007
C.H. Spurgeon - "Every attribute of God should become a fresh ray in the sunlight of our gladness. That He is wise should make us glad, knowing as we do our own foolishness. That He is mighty, should cause us to rejoice who tremble at our weakness. That he is everlasting, should always be a theme of joy when we know that we wither as the grass. That He is unchanging, should perpetually yield us a song, since we change every hour. That He is full of grace, that He is overflowing with it, and that this grace in covenant He has given to us; that it is ours to cleanse us, ours to keep us, ours to sanctify us, ours to perfect us, ours to bring us to glory--all this should tend to make us glad in Him."
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C.H. Spurgeon (1834 - 1892) was a British Reformed Baptist preacher who remains highly influential amongst Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known in various circles as the "Prince of Preachers."
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Selah: Thursday, September 20, 2007
Garrett J. DeWeese - "Keep praying. Even if you feel it's doing no good, keep it up. And then in faith reflect on God's unfailing love and all the ways that His goodness has enriched your life in the past. Have confidence based on that faith that He will bring deliverance to you."
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Garrett J. DeWeese is minister of Christian education and discipleship at Pulpit Rock Church, Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Selah: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Fred Askins - "What Augustine said about salvation applies also to prayer: "Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.""
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Fred Askins holds a master of divinity degree from Denver Theological Seminary. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Selah: Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Fred Askins - "Prayer is difficult and mysterious. But lack of understanding should never prevent us from praying. Choose to pray."
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Fred Askins holds a master of divinity degree from Denver Theological Seminary. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Selah: Monday, September 17, 2007
Fred Askins - ""'Why aren't my prayers answered?' seems to be the most common complaint of Christians who don't take prayer seriously. Personally, the older I get, the more glad I am God doesn't grant all my requests. I know my ego--it can inflate to the size of a dirigible at a moment's notice. If God promptly answered my every prayer, I would promptly demote Him to Cosmic Vending Machine."
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Fred Askins holds a master of divinity degree from Denver Theological Seminary. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Selah: Sunday, September 16, 2007
Fred Askins - "Prayer is difficult because it demands large doses of faith. If one hundred Christians were asked, "Do you believe in the power of prayer?" I expect practically all would vigorously nod in agreement. But let's call a spade a spade. The only ones who truly believed would be those who actually prayed--regularly. Those who don't pray don't believe in prayer's power."
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Fred Askins holds a master of divinity degree from Denver Theological Seminary. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Selah: Thursday, September 13, 2007
William Gurnall - "Perseverance is a hard word! This taking up the cross daily, this praying always, this watching night and day, and never laying aside our clothes and armor--that is, never allowing ourselves to give in or give up in our holy waiting on God and walking with God. The lack of perseverance sends many in sorrow away from Christ. Yet this is a saint's duty, to make religion his everyday work without any vacation from one end of the year to the other."
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William Gurnall (1617 - 1679) was a Puritan pastor in the Church of England who served a small parish, the Church of Christ, in Lavenham, Suffolk.
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Selah: Wednesday, September 12, 2007
William Gurnall - "We are commanded not to be conformed to this world, that is, not to accommodate ourselves to the corrupt customs of the world. The Christian must not be of such a complying nature as to tailor the coat of his profession according to the fashion of the times or the humor of the company he falls into. No, the Christian must stand fixed in his principles, and not change his habit, but freely show of what country he is a citizen by his holy constancy in the truth."
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William Gurnall (1617 - 1679) was a Puritan pastor in the Church of England who served a small parish, the Church of Christ, in Lavenham, Suffolk.
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Selah: Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Arthur Joyce - "October 7, 1916, witnessed the worst defeat in a college football game when Georgia Tech played Cumberland college of Kentucky and beat them 222 to 0! The record shows that Cumberland never made a first down and that the Cumberland players were just totally destroyed. Halfway through the first half one of the Cumberland backs fumbled the ball. As the ball rolled toward his teammate, he yelled, "PICK IT UP! PICK IT UP!" The other player yelled, "YOU PICK IT UP! YOU DROPPED IT." There are times when our situation in life seems so hopeless. We've dropped the ball and we really don't feel like picking it up again! We're just plain tired of being hit over and over and over again, and we just want to quit! But... Paul told us in 2 Corinthians 3:18 & 4:1 that we must not "lose heart." God is at work in us making us conform to the image of His dear Son. In the process He is using every event in our lives to "transform" us. Be not discouraged!"
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Arthur Joyce has been the pastor of Johnson City Alliance Church in Johnson City, TN since January, 1979. His heart's cry is that Jesus would be so lifted up that He alone would be seen and worshipped by young and old alike! Every believer has a unique place in the Body of Christ and has been gifted in such a way that the local Body of Believers will be enabled to demonstrate the grace and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ to a watching community and world.
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Selah: Monday, September 10, 2007
Peter Wallace - "In every area of life, you plant seeds. And if you're planting godly seeds, God's Word guarantees that a harvest of joy will come. Real joy, hard-won joy, the fruit of faithful labor. Keep sowing. You've yet to see the harvest!"
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Peter Wallace is editorial director for research and development with Walk Through the Bible Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia
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Selah: Sunday, September 9, 2007
Peter Wallace - "Reaping a harvest takes time. In our fast-paced culture that's hard to accept. Sometimes we never see or know about the harvest that results from seed we've planted. But that should not keep us from sowing."
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Peter Wallace is editorial director for research and development with Walk Through the Bible Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia
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Selah: Thursday, September 6, 2007
Oswald Chambers - "In the natural life our ambitions alter as we develop; in the Christian life the goal is given at the beginning, the beginning and the end are the same, viz., Our Lord Himself. We start with Christ and we end with Him - "until we all attain to the stature of the manhood of Christ Jesus," not to our idea of what the Christian life should be. The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathen; he is useful and he does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord."
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Oswald Chambers (1874 - 1917) was a Scottish minister and teacher whose teachings on the life of faith and abandonment to God have endured to this day.
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Selah: Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Oswald Chambers - "The things that Jesus did were of the most menial and commonplace order, and this is an indication that it takes all God's power in me to do the most commonplace things in His way. Can I use a towel as He did? Towels and dishes and sandals, all the ordinary sordid things of our lives, reveal more quickly than anything what we are made of. It takes God Almighty Incarnate in us to do the meanest duty as it ought to be done."
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Oswald Chambers (1874 - 1917) was a Scottish minister and teacher whose teachings on the life of faith and abandonment to God have endured to this day.
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Selah: Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Oswald Chambers - "We are to be centres through which Jesus can flow as rivers of living water in blessing to every one. Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus. As surely as we receive from Him, He will pour out through us, and in the measure He is not pouring out, there is a defect in our relationship to Him."
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Oswald Chambers (1874 - 1917) was a Scottish minister and teacher whose teachings on the life of faith and abandonment to God have endured to this day.
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Selah: Monday, September 3, 2007
Oswald Chambers - "A river is victoriously persistent, it overcomes all barriers. For a while it goes steadily on its course, then it comes to an obstacle and for a while it is baulked, but it soon makes a pathway round the obstacle. Or a river will drop out of sight for miles, and presently emerge again broader and grander than ever. You can see God using some lives, but into your life an obstacle has come and you do not seem to be of any use. Keep paying attention to the Source, and God will either take you round the obstacle or remove it. The river of the Spirit of God overcomes all obstacles. Never get your eyes on the obstacle or on the difficulty. The obstacle is a matter of indifference to the river which will flow steadily through you if you remember to keep right at the Source. Never allow anything to come between yourself and Jesus Christ, no emotion, or experience; nothing must keep you from the one great sovereign Source."
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Oswald Chambers (1874 - 1917) was a Scottish minister and teacher whose teachings on the life of faith and abandonment to God have endured to this day.
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Selah: Sunday, September 2, 2007
Oswald Chambers - "If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you clutched it for yourself; whereas if you had poured it out unto the Lord, you would have been the sweetest person out of heaven. If you are always taking blessings to yourself and never learn to pour out anything unto the Lord, other people do not get their horizon enlarged through you."
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Oswald Chambers (1874 - 1917) was a Scottish minister and teacher whose teachings on the life of faith and abandonment to God have endured to this day.
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Selah: Thursday, August 30, 2007
William P. Farley - "Don't ever forget God's promise of eternal joy. The older I get the more I stand on this hope--an "inexpressible and glorious joy" is how Peter describes it (1 Pet. 1:8). This hope keeps my spiritual motor running during times of discouragement. I constantly remind myself that perfected joy awaits me in eternity. God will someday irrevocably immerse you and me in His glorious, unshakable, ever-expanding joy--a fountain of joy overflowing from relationships of love."
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William P. Farley is a freelance writer and Bible teacher residing in Spokane, Washington
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Selah: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
William P. Farley - "There are no formulas to growing in joy, no easy shortcuts, because joy is always the fruit of a living, growing relationship with God. I am tempted every day to find joy in something other than God. There is joy in good television programs, the sports page, and fishing. These are legitimate recreations, but they cannot compete with the joy of loving and being loved by God. I must constantly remind myself of this truth lest I become unduly distracted by these lesser delights."
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William P. Farley is a freelance writer and Bible teacher residing in Spokane, Washington
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Selah: Tuesday, August 28, 2007
William P. Farley - "God loved me when I could give Him nothing in return. God is self-sufficient and complete. Since God was infinitely happy before He created us, He had nothing to gain from our redemption. He willed our happiness simply because "God is love.""
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William P. Farley is a freelance writer and Bible teacher residing in Spokane, Washington
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Selah: Monday, August 27, 2007
Taylor Gardner - "Jesus' primary purposes in prayer were to have fellowship with His Father and to seek His direction. This was not a sign of weakness but of wisdom. Jesus said, "Here I am--it is written about me in the scroll--I have come to do your will, O God" (Heb. 10:7). If Jesus needed fellowship with God and direction from Him, how much more do we!"
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Taylor Gardner is dean of students at Calvary Bible College, Kansas City, Missouri.
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Selah: Sunday, August 26, 2007
Taylor Gardner - "Concentrated prayer requires that we not be distracted. Satan has a way of interrupting our communion with God with insignificant thoughts. We need to eliminate every distraction we can. Giving God our undivided attention is essential to fervency, and so to effectiveness, in prayer."
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Taylor Gardner is dean of students at Calvary Bible College, Kansas City, Missouri.
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Selah: Thursday, August 23, 2007
Taylor Gardner - "Prayer clears the vision, directs the path, and defeats the foe. We cannot afford to live without this kind of help. Lehman Strauss said it this way: "It is not possible for a Christian to know God's will apart from prayer.""
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Taylor Gardner is dean of students at Calvary Bible College, Kansas City, Missouri.
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Selah: Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Taylor Gardner - "The greater the pressures of the day, the greater the urgency for prayer. Busyness not only is a poor excuse for prayerlessness, it is a good reason for prayerfulness."
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Taylor Gardner is dean of students at Calvary Bible College, Kansas City, Missouri.
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Selah: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Tim Muehilhoff - "If we want our friends and neighbors to listen to our stories, then we must listen to theirs. If we want others to attend to our convictions, then we must first attend to theirs. If we desire for others to cultivate common ground with us, we must seek common ground first. And in doing so we will create a communication climate in which we can fulfill our deepest longing: telling others about God's patient and long-suffering love."
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Tim Muehilhoff is director of applied communication at the Communication Center of Campus Crusade for Christ.
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Selah: Monday, August 20, 2007
Dan S. Baty - "Certainly God wants and commands me to be a servant. But it was a refreshing and revolutionary day when I realized that the greatest commandment--love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mk. 12:30)--is not primarily an exhortation to do more for Him, but to grow more intimate with Him."
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Dan S. Baty is a pastor at Valley Brook Community Church in Columbia, Maryland
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Selah: Sunday, August 19, 2007
David (the Psalmist) - ""Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret - it leads only to evil" (Ps. 37:7-8)"
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David (the Psalmist) was a man after God's own heart.
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Selah: Thursday, August 16, 2007
David Jackman - "God always gives us blessings so we can pass them on to others, and as we pass on the blessing of the gospel to others, we become channels through which grace flows to them."
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David Jackman is pastor of the Above Bar Church, Southampton, England This article is adapted from a message he delivered to British Navigator staff members.
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Selah: Wednesday, August 15, 2007
David Jackman - "It's no good coming to God when He calls us and saying, "Well, yes, Lord, but of course I'm a very feeble jar of clay. There must be much stronger jars of clay than I am." God responds, "Now look: the weaker you are the more my power can be seen in you. The more you're aware of your own inability, the more my strength can be made perfect in your weakness.""
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David Jackman is pastor of the Above Bar Church, Southampton, England This article is adapted from a message he delivered to British Navigator staff members.
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Selah: Tuesday, August 14, 2007
David Jackman - "When we see the grace of God in the face of Jesus Christ, the only thing we can do is fall at His feet and say, "Lord, here I am, take me. Make me what you want me to be. Take my life. Use it in Your service just as You want to. And, Lord, help me to serve You not on the basis of duty but on the basis of love, because You are a God who has been gracious even to a sinner like me.""
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David Jackman is pastor of the Above Bar Church, Southampton, England This article is adapted from a message he delivered to British Navigator staff members.
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Selah: Monday, August 13, 2007
Matt T. Friedeman - ""Blessed are the meek," Jesus declared. Those who have placed the reins of their lives in the guiding hand of the Master may give up control. But in its stead they will receive the guidance and protection of One whose vision is far higher than theirs. Instead of spending their energy in frivolous pursuits, their lives will reach their full potential--and they will inherit the earth."
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Matt T. Friedeman is assistant professor of Christian education at Wesley Biblical Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi
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Selah: Sunday, August 12, 2007
Larry Libby - "The Lord treasures those who simply obey. They may not understand God's commands, they may not like God's commands, they may not see the logic in God's commands. But when His people accept and align their lives with His commands, they've joined company with the angels of heaven who instantly obey His merest thought."
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Larry Libby is senior editor at Multnomah
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Selah: Thursday, August 9, 2007
Gary L. Thomas - "In his book Desiring God, John Piper's central premise is this: God is most glorified when we are most satisfied in Him. Much of our spiritual dissatisfaction comes from approaching our faith as a set of rote religious exercises. But Christianity is so much more than simply performing the correct spiritual disciplines. It's a living relationship with God that needs to be cultivated."
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Gary L. Thomas is the founder and director of the Center for Evangelical Spirituality, a publishing and speaking ministry that integrates Scripture, church history, and the Christian classics. Gary and his wife, Lisa, live with their three children in Bellingham, Washington
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Selah: Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Gary L. Thomas - "We need to learn to leave the outcome of our battles to the Lord. It is when we try to control outcomes that we fail to have real faith in Him. The fortitude of Christ gives us a supreme calmness, the ability to calculate in peace rather than frenzy, and the courage to take the steps we need to take to act as people of faith."
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Gary L. Thomas is the founder and director of the Center for Evangelical Spirituality, a publishing and speaking ministry that integrates Scripture, church history, and the Christian classics. Gary and his wife, Lisa, live with their three children in Bellingham, Washington
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Selah: Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Gary L. Thomas - "Serving God entails risk. There are no guarantees we will not fail, but the unwillingness to risk may be our greatest failure of all."
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Gary L. Thomas is the founder and director of the Center for Evangelical Spirituality, a publishing and speaking ministry that integrates Scripture, church history, and the Christian classics. Gary and his wife, Lisa, live with their three children in Bellingham, Washington
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Selah: Monday, August 6, 2007
Gary L. Thomas - "God is worthy of unceasing celebration. Jesus said at one point that if the crowds had not broken forth in praise, the rocks would have cried out (Lk. 19:40). God forbid that we get shown up by a bunch of rocks!"
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Gary L. Thomas is the founder and director of the Center for Evangelical Spirituality, a publishing and speaking ministry that integrates Scripture, church history, and the Christian classics. Gary and his wife, Lisa, live with their three children in Bellingham, Washington
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Selah: Sunday, August 5, 2007
Gary L. Thomas - "Learning to love mercy means more than merely being thankful for the mercy we've received. It means we're eager to show mercy to others too. Like the Father who's forgiven us, we choose to let go of our grievances and demonstrate grace to those who don't deserve it�just as we don't deserve it. Our thoughts turn from revenge to reconciliation as mercy permeates our souls and becomes our way of life. "
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Gary L. Thomas is the founder and director of the Center for Evangelical Spirituality, a publishing and speaking ministry that integrates Scripture, church history, and the Christian classics. Gary and his wife, Lisa, live with their three children in Bellingham, Washington
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Selah: Thursday, August 2, 2007
Oswald Chambers - "At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him."
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Oswald Chambers (1874 - 1917) was a Scottish minister and teacher whose teachings on the life of faith and abandonment to God have endured to this day.
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Selah: Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Oswald Chambers - "Consecration means the continual separating of myself to one particular thing. We cannot consecrate once and for all. Am I continually separating myself to consider God every day of my life?"
SELAH!
Oswald Chambers (1874 - 1917) was a Scottish minister and teacher whose teachings on the life of faith and abandonment to God have endured to this day.
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Selah: Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Oswald Chambers - "Keep your life so constant in its contact with God that His surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as He likes."
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Oswald Chambers (1874 - 1917) was a Scottish minister and teacher whose teachings on the life of faith and abandonment to God have endured to this day.
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Selah: Monday, July 30, 2007
Oswald Chambers - "Sometimes we are fresh for a prayer meeting but not fresh for cleaning boots!"
SELAH!
Oswald Chambers (1874 - 1917) was a Scottish minister and teacher whose teachings on the life of faith and abandonment to God have endured to this day.
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Selah: Sunday, July 29, 2007
Oswald Chambers - "Beware of anything that competes with loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him."
SELAH!
Oswald Chambers (1874 - 1917) was a Scottish minister and teacher whose teachings on the life of faith and abandonment to God have endured to this day.
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Selah: Thursday, July 26, 2007
A.B. Simpson - "The voice that continually reaches the Father's ear is that of His trusting child who prays with the breath and power of the Holy Spirit Himself. "
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A.B. Simpson (1843 - 1919) was a pastor, evangelist to the urban masses of New York City, and a missionary statesman. He is best known as one of the leading evangelicals involved in social work at the turn of the century and for founding The Christian and Missionary Alliance.
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Selah: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
A.B. Simpson - "It is a serious matter for those who are walking in the Spirit to trifle with God's voice or to be disobedient to His commands. Such disobedience may interrupt all communion with Him and hinder all prayer. . . ."
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A.B. Simpson (1843 - 1919) was a pastor, evangelist to the urban masses of New York City, and a missionary statesman. He is best known as one of the leading evangelicals involved in social work at the turn of the century and for founding The Christian and Missionary Alliance.
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Selah: Tuesday, July 24, 2007
A.B. Simpson - "Things that God in other circumstances would be quite willing to give us, He often has to refuse us because they would separate us from Him . . ."
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A.B. Simpson (1843 - 1919) was a pastor, evangelist to the urban masses of New York City, and a missionary statesman. He is best known as one of the leading evangelicals involved in social work at the turn of the century and for founding The Christian and Missionary Alliance.
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Selah: Monday, July 23, 2007
A.B. Simpson - "It is not necessary for actual sin to be present in our lives to hinder prayer; it may simply be plain disobedience to the Spirit's voice in some definite leading to service or testimony. I have known many people who did not receive the full answers to their prayers . . . until they had obeyed the voice of God in some particular where they had been shrinking or hesitating . . . Others lost out by failing to take some step of faith to which the Holy Spirit was calling. It was not until months and even years of striving with God that they learned the lesson. Then after prompt and thorough obedience, they received perfect deliverance and wonderful blessing. . . ."
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A.B. Simpson (1843 - 1919) was a pastor, evangelist to the urban masses of New York City, and a missionary statesman. He is best known as one of the leading evangelicals involved in social work at the turn of the century and for founding The Christian and Missionary Alliance.
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Selah: Sunday, July 22, 2007
A.B. Simpson - "It is a very blessed thing to be quiet and still, work on and entrust the little things to God. He answers such trust in a wonderful way. The believer who has no time to fret and worry and harbor care has learned the secret of faith in God. A desperate desire to change some difficult circumstance may take our eyes off God and His glory."
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A.B. Simpson (1843 - 1919) was a pastor, evangelist to the urban masses of New York City, and a missionary statesman. He is best known as one of the leading evangelicals involved in social work at the turn of the century and for founding The Christian and Missionary Alliance.
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Selah: Thursday, July 19, 2007
Robert Wetmore - "Look upon Jesus as He suffered and see the kind of love He had for those who cursed Him. Go out and do the same for others. Then come back and stand again before that same cross. Suddenly, you see the thorns in his brow and hear Him gasp, 'Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.' Return to your persecutors and utter those same words as they slander you and turn against you. Then bow again on Golgotha and see the nails in His feet. Every time you carry His cross and then return to stand before Hm, you will understand more of His love. Bearing His cross teaches you to adore His love. We can understand Jesus' love only as we practice it toward others."
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Robert Wetmore is Professor of Religious Studies at Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan
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Selah: Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Robert Wetmore - "The world does not need anger--it has seen enough. The world does not need protest--it has heard enough. And condemnation? It is already condemned (John 3:18). The world needs to see the glory of the cross, the glory of the cross in us, in our lives, in our commitment and in our deaths for it."
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Robert Wetmore is Professor of Religious Studies at Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan
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Selah: Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Robert Wetmore - "At the end of a day, we sometimes look back over what has happened and decide whether it has been a good or bad day. God has told us that He will judge our days, but He will use a different ruler to measure whether they have been good or not. God will not judge how we have felt about Jesus but how we have walked with Him. The real test will not be whether we have enjoyed Jesus but whether we have loved Him. Love always stands as the only true measure of any real relationship."
SELAH!
Robert Wetmore is Professor of Religious Studies at Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan
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Selah: Monday, July 16, 2007
Marvin J. Rosenthal - "Psalm 23 ends with, 'Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.' There is no promise here of an easy life. No hint of power, fame, health, or wealth is made. There is nothing of a 'name it and claim it' theology here. If one reflects on it, something of far greater value is promised -- it is the abiding presence of God's goodness and mercy through all of life. What bestowed gift can be greater?"
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Marvin J. Rosenthal is Executive Director of Zion's Hope
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Selah: Sunday, July 15, 2007
Marvin J. Rosenthal - "If a man or woman can truly say, 'The Lord is my Shepherd, and I am His sheep,' then, and only then, can it be said, 'I shall not want.' Such a person can rest in the absolute certainty of perfect provision for all of life. There is no promised provision for luxury. There is promised provision for necessities."
SELAH!
Marvin J. Rosenthal is Executive Director of Zion's Hope
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Selah: Thursday, July 12, 2007
Bob Fobes - "The writer of Hebrews said that in running the race of life for God, we should "throw off everything that hinders, and the sin that so easily entangles" (Hebrews 12:2). What are the hindrances for us? What has God been bringing to mind? It could be a wrong lifestyle, or conformity to social pressures, or a wrong emotion or habit. We can take hold of these little pleasures and follow them to our sorrow, or we can drop them and follow Christ."
SELAH!
Bob Fobes is a Navigator representative in Massachusetts.
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Selah: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Bob Fobes - "God's value system is different from the world's--in the way to pursue a career, in the use of money, in family values, in social behavior. The world says success is first. But God says he is to be first. The world says to get all the money you can. God says to give. The world says to conform to contemporary lifestyles, but God says to live by convictions from his word. The world says God is just religion, but God says he wants our devotion."
SELAH!
Bob Fobes is a Navigator representative in Massachusetts.
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Selah: Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Bob Fobes - "The big decisions in our life don't determine our development or our destiny. The little decisions do. Those little choices set the patterns that determine how we make the big choices. Jesus said, "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much" (Luke 16:10). How we use dimes and dollar bills establishes how we'll use fifty dollars or ten thousand dollars."
SELAH!
Bob Fobes is a Navigator representative in Massachusetts.
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Selah: Monday, July 9, 2007
C.S. Lewis - "How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing... it is irresistible. If even ten percent of the world's population had it, would not the whole world be converted and happy before a year's end? "
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C.S. Lewis , theologian and apologist for the Christian faith, became a Christian because, he explained to his brother, there was nothing else for him to do. He recognized that Jesus was and is the only way to eternal life and the forgiveness of sins.
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Selah: Sunday, July 8, 2007
Bill Hull - "Making disciples requires faith because it arouses the enemy's greatest opposition. Whenever we seriously pursue God's clear and directive desire, the enemy will appear in full battle attire. Like a bear drawn to honey, Satan and his cohorts are fixated. They have an innate desire to destroy what God is trying to accomplish through his people."
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Bill Hull is pastor of Homewood Evangelical Free Church in Moline, Illinois.
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Selah: Thursday, July 5, 2007
Tim Downs - "When a person comes to Christ, he becomes a laborer in God's fields. Sometimes we're called to reap, and sometimes we're called to sow. Our role may change from day to day and from person to person. Like Jeremiah, some are called to exercise one role exclusively for a lifetime. The critical point is that we don't get to choose the role we prefer."
SELAH!
Tim Downs is a speaker, writer, and staff member of Campus Crusade for Christ
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Selah: Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Tim Downs - "I think Jeremiah would have used three words to describe himself after 40 years of ministry: useless, hopeless, and discouraged. But Jeremiah, like all of us, was unable to see the impact of his life and work from the perspective of history. He never knew that his "futile" warnings and predictions would one day become the longest book of the Bible. He was unaware that his prophecy of the new covenant would set the stage for the entire life and work of Jesus, the Messiah. In short, Jeremiah had no way to know what his service was intended to accomplish--and neither do we."
SELAH!
Tim Downs is a speaker, writer, and staff member of Campus Crusade for Christ
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Selah: Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Ronald Reagan - "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Pray for our country and our elected officials."
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Ronald Reagan was a US statesman and 40th president of the United States of America
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Selah: Monday, July 2, 2007
Stanley W. Mooneyham - "While some more mature Christians may indeed be gifted and called to teach, even teachers need to continue to be learners."
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Stanley W. Mooneyham is president of World Vision International
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Selah: Sunday, July 1, 2007
Stan Kellner - "There are nine characteristics of Yahweh hinted at in Psalm 23. These characteristics wonderfully describe Jesus, our good shepherd (Jesus in Hebrew means "Yahweh is our salvation"), and paint a beautiful picture of His commitment to us. The ninth one is:
Jehovah Most High--Yahweh Elyon. He is God, and He deserves all my praise in whatever situation I find myself. The shepherd has only goodness and mercy for me."
SELAH!
Stan Kellner is director of evangelism seminars for the International Bible Society.
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Selah: Thursday, June 28, 2007
Stan Kellner - "There are nine characteristics of Yahweh hinted at in Psalm 23. These characteristics wonderfully describe Jesus, our good shepherd (Jesus in Hebrew means "Yahweh is our salvation"), and paint a beautiful picture of His commitment to us. The eighth one is:
Jehovah My Sanctifier--Yahweh Mkaddeshchem. He has anointed me with the oil of His Holy Spirit. His power helps me to walk the path as He purifies me. Increasingly, His holiness is reflected in my life."
SELAH!
Stan Kellner is director of evangelism seminars for the International Bible Society.
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Selah: Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Stan Kellner - "There are nine characteristics of Yahweh hinted at in Psalm 23. These characteristics wonderfully describe Jesus, our good shepherd (Jesus in Hebrew means "Yahweh is our salvation"), and paint a beautiful picture of His commitment to us. The seventh one is:
Jehovah My Victor--Yahweh Nissi. In the midst of my trial, Jesus promises to be my stronghold and my sustainer. His presence protects me when Satan's fiery darts of fear and doubt come my way."
SELAH!
Stan Kellner is director of evangelism seminars for the International Bible Society.
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Selah: Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Stan Kellner - "There are nine characteristics of Yahweh hinted at in Psalm 23. These characteristics wonderfully describe Jesus, our good shepherd (Jesus in Hebrew means "Yahweh is our salvation"), and paint a beautiful picture of His commitment to us. The sixth one is:
Jehovah My Companion--Yahweh Sham-mah. Jesus is with me in everything I face. I may walk through a valley of deep darkness (the name of an actual valley in Israel, by the way), but I will not be anxious because the shepherd is facing it with me. The psalmist eloquently wrote, 'You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.' -- Ps. 139:5-10."
SELAH!
Stan Kellner is director of evangelism seminars for the International Bible Society.
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Selah: Monday, June 25, 2007
Stan Kellner - "There are nine characteristics of Yahweh hinted at in Psalm 23. These characteristics wonderfully describe Jesus, our good shepherd (Jesus in Hebrew means "Yahweh is our salvation"), and paint a beautiful picture of His commitment to us. The fifth one is:
Jehovah My Righteousness--Yahweh Tzidkenu. Jesus blazed the very path of righteousness on which I tread. He is the beginner and completer of my faith who is intimately acquainted with the whole path."
SELAH!
Stan Kellner is director of evangelism seminars for the International Bible Society.
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Selah: Sunday, June 24, 2007
Stan Kellner - "There are nine characteristics of Yahweh hinted at in Psalm 23. These characteristics wonderfully describe Jesus, our good shepherd (Jesus in Hebrew means "Yahweh is our salvation"), and paint a beautiful picture of His commitment to us. The fourth one is:
Jehovah My Restorer--Yahweh Ropheca. Jesus is going deep inside me and bringing refreshment and rejuvenation to my soul day by day through the Holy Spirit. His "streams of living water" flow through me even in [a] crisis (Jn. 7:37-39)."
SELAH!
Stan Kellner is director of evangelism seminars for the International Bible Society.
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Selah: Thursday, June 21, 2007
Stan Kellner - "There are nine characteristics of Yahweh hinted at in Psalm 23. These characteristics wonderfully describe Jesus, our good shepherd (Jesus in Hebrew means "Yahweh is our salvation"), and paint a beautiful picture of His commitment to us. The third one is:
Jehovah My Peace--Yahweh Shalom. Jesus' shalom... is enabling me to find quiet meadows and waters of rest, especially as my anxious spirit wells up inside me. He speaks words of comfort and hope into my turmoil: 'Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.' -- Matthew 11:28-30."
SELAH!
Stan Kellner is director of evangelism seminars for the International Bible Society.
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